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By Lily Hay Newman, Wired: Questions about the Democratic National Committee hack and Russia’s alleged involvement have been swirling for months, and have intensified as the intelligence community prepares to brief …

By Mary Oppenheim, The Independent: In an unprecedented move, the President-elect’s team are reported to have demanded ambassadors appointed by Barack Obama to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day …

By Associated Press: For the first time, the Marine Corps has put three enlisted female Marines in a ground combat unit once open only to men, officials said Thursday. They …

By Ryan Browne, CNN: The Pentagon announced Thursday that four inmates were transferred from the Guantanamo Bay prison to Saudi Arabia, dropping the prison’s population to 55. Of those remaining, …

By Lucy Clarke-Billings, Newsweek: South Korea’s government has hired an officer to exclusively monitor U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is particularly interested in …

By Nereida Moreno, Chicago Tribune: Chicago police say they are considering hate crime charges against four people shown in a Facebook video attacking a mentally disabled man, cutting his scalp …

By Jennings Brown, Vocativ: For the last six months, the Pentagon has been working on a robotic system that could replace military pilots. Now the United States Department of Defense’s …

By Spielgel Staff: The hour-long video didn’t exactly put the German chancellor in a cheerful mood. The footage was from Donald Trump’s recent appearance in Pennsylvania during his so-called Thank …

By Charlotte England, The Independent: Chinese state media has said the US is “just a shooting star in the ample sky of history”, in an editorial warning Donald Trump “not …

By Buster Hein, Cult of Mac: iPhone users in China are no longer able to download the app for the most popular newspaper publisher in the U.S. Chinese government officials …